On a fairly recent system, how much impact does RAM speed really have? I have DDR3 1600 MHz at the moment, I recently upgraded from 1333 MHz, the benchmark (Maxxmem) I ran showed a nice little improvement, but does that really translate into higher FPS or other real world performance increase? My motherboard allows for 2133 MHz RAM, and my friend was looking to buy 1600 MHz RAM so I was thinking of upgrading and giving him mine if it'll really make a difference. So does it matter much aside from benchmarking numbers?

Yep ditto. Couldn't beat the price on my Vengence, great bang for the buck.

You need to update your specs Mr.

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Yeah, I got Vengeance too - two blue and two black to match the memory slots, lol for a total of 16GB. No, I don't need that much.

I will indeed be updating them, but it's not yet been commissioned (now there's a big word from qubit) so the old specs remain in place for now, but I'll put a little note on them. It's still currently sitting on my testing frame having unspeakable things done to it with software setup and testing...

Yeah, I got Vengeance too - two blue and two black to match the memory slots, lol for a total of 16GB. No, I don't need that much.

I will indeed be updating them, but it's not yet been commissioned (now there's a big word from qubit) so the old specs remain in place for now, but I'll put a little note on them. It's still currently sitting on my testing frame having unspeakable things done to it with software setup and testing...